Public Scholarship

2024

• Derek Ford, “It’ll always be George:” A new Black August series, Shaka Shakur Freedom Campaign, 01 August 2024, available here.
• Musa Springer and Derek Ford, Juche and the Korean struggle: Behind the propaganda, The International 41 (2024): 49-63, available here.
• Jay Grillo and Derek Ford, The state can’t isolate the imagination: Vernon T Bateman and the struggle to free them all, Hampton Institute, 13 May 2024, available here.
• Derek Ford, Decolonisation isn’t pretty or complicated: When violence is humanising, PESA Agora, available here.
  • Reprinted in Hampton Institute.

2023

• Derek Ford, Capitalist contradictions and revolutionary struggle: An introduction, Monthly Review, 23 December 2023. available here.
• Derek Ford, The “Powell Memo” and the Supreme Court: A counteroffensive against the many, Liberation School, 06 April 2023, available here.
  • Reprinted in Hampton Institute, New Cold War, Monthly Review, Black Agenda Report
• Derek Ford, Educators must help defeat the new racist and imperialist “Red Scare,” PESA Agora, available here.
  • Reprinted in New Cold War, Hampton Institute, Peace, Land, and Bread.
• Derek Ford, The “Manifesto of the Communist Party” at 175 years: Same audience, different conjuncture, Peace, Land, and Bread, 21 February 2023. available here.
  • Reprinted in Hampton Institute, International Manifesto Group, New Cold War.
• Derek Ford and Peter McLaren, The class struggle in theory and practice: An interview with Peter McLaren, Peace, Land, and Bread, 23 January 2023, available here.
  • Translated into Spanish and reprinted in Otras Voces en Educación, available here.
• Derek Ford, Defending ‘our schools:’ Koreans in Japan face continued racism, The International Magazine, 04 January 2023, available here.
  • Reprinted in No Cold War, The 4^th Media
  • Translated into Japanese and published in the Choson Sinbo, available here.
• Derek Ford, Against the “compatible” radical academic left: Rethinking racism and capitalism, PESA Agora, available here.

2022

• Derek Ford, Studying society for the working class: Marx’s preface to the first edition of Capital, Liberation School, 25 July 2022, available here.
  • Reprinted in Monthly Review, Hampton Institute.
• Ford, D. (2022). 우크라이나에서 미제국주의전쟁에 맞서 통일전선을 건설하자 (Building a united front against U.S. imperialism in Ukraine), The Locomotive.
• Derek Ford, Massive ‘war games’ underway as U.S. practices invasion of North Korea, Liberation News, 29 August 2022, available here.

2021

• Nino Brown and Derek Ford, Teaching politically and the problem of Afropessimism, Black Agenda Report, 29 September 2021, available here.
  • Reprinted in Monthly Review, Hampton Institute, Popular Resistance.
• Derek Ford, Paulo Freire’s centennial: Political pedagogy for revolutionary organizations, Monthly Review, 21 September 2021, available here.
  • Reprinted in Orinoco Tribune, Hampton Institute, Liberation School.
  • Translated into Portuguese and reprinted in Nova Cultura, available here.
  • Translated into Catalan and reprinted in Onze Magazine, available here.
• Mazda Majidi and Derek Ford, Clarifying and inspiring revolution for 130 years: Marx’s “Critique of the Gotha Programme,” Liberation School, 29 December 2021, available here.
  • Reprinted in Hampton Institute.
  • Translated into Türkçe and reprinted in Marksizm Bibliyotegi here.
• Derek Ford, Koreans in Japan face new wave of discrimination, ANSWER Coalition, 13 July 2021, available here.
  • Translated into Korean and published in Minplus News, available here.
• Mazda Majidi and Derek Ford, Surplus value is the class struggle: An introduction, Liberation School, 30 March 2021, available here.
  • Reprinted in Hampton Institute.
• Musa Springer and Derek Ford, Walter Rodney’s revolutionary praxis, Liberation School, 12 August 2021, available here.
  • Reprinted in Hampton Institute.
• Derek Ford, The base-superstructure: A model for analysis and action, Liberation School, 22 November 2021, available here.
  • Reprinted in Monthly Review, Hampton Institute.
• Derek Ford, What is ideology? An introduction to the Marxist theory of ideology, Liberation School, 07 September 2021, available here.

2020

• Derek Ford, The colonial gaze in overdrive: The latest rumors and allegations about the DPRK. Hampton Institute, 06 May 2020, available here.
• Ahn Hak-sop and Derek Ford, Still fighting for Korea’s liberation: An interview with Ahn Hak-sop, Liberation School, 20 January 2020, available here.
  • Translated into Portuguese and reprinted in Nova Cultura, available here.
  • Translated into Türkçe and reprinted in Marksizm Bibliyotegi, available here.
• Derek Ford and Curry Malott, Engels on the housing question: Wishful thinking vs. real solutions, Liberation School, 28 November 2020, available here.
  • Translated into Portuguese and reprinted in Tradu Agindo here.
• Derek Ford, Chongryon: The struggle of Koreans in Japan, Liberation School, 30 January 2019, available here.
  • Translated into Portuguese and reprinted in Resistência, Nova Cultura, Solidariedade a Coreia Popular here.

2019 – before

• Derek Ford, More than words: Formulating slogans for the struggle, Liberation School, 10 August 2019, available here.
  • Reprinted in Hampton Institute.
  • Rranslated into Portuguese and reprinted in Lavra Palavra here.
• Estevan Hernandez, Jon Prysner, and Derek Ford, A Marxist approach to technology, Liberation School, 09 December 2019, available here.
  • Translated into Türkçe and reprinted in Sendika here.
• Ford, D. (2017). Eyewitness DPRK: An American’s journey before the travel ban. Hampton Institute, 01 September 2017, available here.
  • Translated into Korean and published in Uriminzokkiri (DPRK outlet)  here.
• Derek Ford, Ayatollah Khamenei’s letter exposes US plot to demonize Islam: Academic, Tasnim News Agency, 23 February 2015, available here.
• Derek Ford, Studying in the streets: The pedagogy of throwing bottles at the cops, Black Agenda Report, available here.